Tree removal in Dalton, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Dalton that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 12, 2021; April 28, 2021; and July 24, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 550 households live in Dalton. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1957.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 14 miles from Dalton, averages 122 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 45 at or below 20°F.

Ice, snow and broken limbs

Source: NOAA Climate Normals

Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 4 electric utilities with service territory in Lackawanna County, among them PPL Electric Utilities Corp and Borough of Blakely; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024